Life — September 25, 1913 — page 7: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "A Snug Little Corner in Love" This page from *Life* magazine illustrates "The Beginning of the Second Chapter" of what appears to be a serialized story or comic narrative. The black-and-white photograph shows two men in dark suits standing in a cemetery beside gravestones marked "John" and "Mary Wife of Henry," with a large crowd visible in the background. The accompanying poem by Arthur Powell celebrates having "cornered the market in Love"—securing a romantic partner despite life's difficulties. The satire appears to mock romantic sentiment and the idea of romantic exclusivity, using the cemetery setting ironically to juxtapose death with love's supposed triumph. The text contrasts worldly "corners" (in commerce, agriculture, trade) with an emotional "corner in your little heart."